Apostolico v. Orlando Regional Health Care System, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an appellate court does not defer to the trial court on matters of law
• concluding that for presuit purposes, a nurse or any other medical professional, with appropriate experience or training, may qualify as a medical expert to corroborate that there were reasonable grounds to initiate a medical malpractice action
• affidavit from nurse opining that hospital and its staff failed to meet the appropriate standard of care was deemed sufficient to satisfy statutory pre-suit requirements
• “complex medical and factual issues are involved in a determination of proximate cause in a medical malpractice case”
• \complex medical and factual issues are involved in a determination of proximate cause in a medical malpractice case\
• “We review a trial court’s disposition of a motion to dismiss de novo.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).